Imperial Rage! (Or How the Wraith Stole Someone's Battle)

wraith89 · May 6, 2011

Imperial Rage

Warning: This game will be a constant battle between Wraith89 and Lady Fortuna. Be advised, a lot of hax to come to plague Wraith, but Wraith foils Fortuna once again in a battle between wits and muscles and romances (just kidding about the last part!).

Rules:

Evasion Clause, Extended Game, OHKO Clause, Sleep Clause, Timed Battle

Pokemon: (In order of appearance)

Wraith89

Austin Sol

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FAQs:

1) Do I know this team?

Yes, it's the first rendition of my Gen V team Divine Rights.

2) That was an interesting battle. But you really had the guts to keep going when you got mass haxxed?

Heh. Someplace in the middle I was somewhat unsure and I just played for the heck of it with the mindset I'd lose. Yes, it was a bad battle, and I was rather hating the situations, but for some reason, I kept going. Seems like I did okay. Heh heh.

This comes to show you that even if you get insanely haxxed, you can turn a battle around if you know how to play around your foe. However, there are times you will be helpless. In one test battle during the early stages of Gen V simulation in PO, Tbird trolled around while I was sweeping him with a Jynx and he critical hitted my Jynx, OHKOing her and sweeping my whole entire team, turning a 6-1 into a 0-1. Yeah, it wasn't a team that I'd use competitively, but just something in the beginning to test out some new Gen V Pokemon. >_>

There was another time he critical hitted me 5 times in a row with Heracross's Close Combat, pretty much demolishing my team. But even when it looks hopeless, you CAN still try and beat your opponent. You will never know what happens unless you try!

3) Most of those crits didn't matter. Quit QQing!

Oh, is that so? Let's look at a particular case here, Archeops vs Empoleon. OF COURSE, Earthquake is SUPER EFFECTIVE against Empoleon. It's supposed to OHKO!!!! Well, what I haven't told you is... Empoleon is running a defensive set.

With 252 HP/160 Def, and Archeops being Adamant, let's look at how much Earthquake would actually do:

252 Atk Adamant Archeops EQ vs 252 HP/160 Def Empoleon: 64% - 75.3%

Same Empoleon vs 4 HP Archeops with Scald: 92.5% - 108.9%

With Torrent: 137.7% - 162.3%

Please do take a note that Archeops switched into Stealth Rocks, meaning I would OHKO it regardless. So yes, these crits did matter, and the Archeops even took down my Blissey in 2 hits... with crits. You can see why I got upset

4) Meh, if that Archeops didn't switch out and if Scizor Bullet Punch'd Dragonite you'd be history!!

If critical hit (most likely to happen), then yes. However, I ran different calculations to prove otherwise.

Let's make a make-believe scenario.

I was at + 2 on Dragonite. If Archeops crit, he'd hit 58% again while I Roost again the next turn. Archeops, iirc, would be left with 2 Stone Edges after that whole thing, so it would not stay in for a long time anyways, assuming it was Choiced (and I believe it was). So either way, Archeops would be a set up bait.

Switching to Scizor, Dragonite had 68% HP after the Roost. Scizor had 65% HP. How much does Bullet Punch from an LO Adamant 252 Atk Scizor do to my 224 HP Dragonite?

Adamant 252 Atk Scizor w/ LO Bullet Punch vs 224 HP Dragonite: 38.3% - 45.4%

Barring critical hit, that will not OHKO a 68% Dragonite. With the LO recoil, Scizor loses 10% HP, bringing it down to 55%. In return, how much does Dragonite's Outrage + 2 do?

+ 2 Adamant 80 Atk Dragonite Outrage vs 248 HP Scizor: 56.9% - 66.8%

Just enough to scrape that OHKO on Scizor. Earthquake, I imagine, will do slightly more. This is assuming Scizor has 248 HP, but if not, I'd imagine it would do slightly more, so either way, I had Scizor covered. Lum Berry was still in-tact, and no one had a priority move, so after that Outrage, Lum Berry would clear away the confusion.

If Scizor was using Swords Dance in hopes of surviving an Earthquake (which would do a minimum of 63% max), and it survived the impact from Earthquake, then yes, I'd probably be history as Scizor would be left with at most 2% and 38% * 2 would be greater than 68%. Let's say this actually did happen and I did not OHKO Scizor like in that actual battle. What could I have done otherwise? I know this is an unrealistic situation, but say I was able to read another person's mind in that they live the EQ and they SD to BPunch me to oblivion. Then I can use Roost to bring Dragonite back to 100%, activating Multi Scale, and as Scizor fails to OHKO Dragonite with Bullet Punch after the + 2, it takes the LO recoil, and is brought into KO range from Earthquake. However, if it was a critical hit. . . yeah you know the deal.

So either way, I could secure that victory. Again, I would like to let you know, if any of these moves (mostly Scizor's) attack landed a CRITICAL HIT, I'd be a goner for sure. But since this is what happened, how can you argue with that?

5) Aren't you forgetting something?

No, I don't think so.

6) No, you are forgetting something. DUDE. I want that Dragonite set!

Go look at my RMT thread you lazy bum. Oh, you can't? I just linked it. Well, all right.

James VI & I (Dragonite) (M) @ Lum Berry

Trait: Multi-Scale

EVs: 224 HP / 80 Atk / 204 Spd

Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)

- Dragon Dance

- Outrage

- Earthquake

- Roost

Like I said, you could have looked in my RMT. Anyways, it's an old spread I used in Gen IV, only to be brought back in Gen V for more fun. Multiscales makes it even more possible, and Dragonite sweeps are frequent once all his threats are out. Try it out, but since many of you have better relationships with RNG than I do, you might as well do something better out of it. There is certainly more confidence setting up with Dragonite than with many of the other Dragons out there. I'm just glad Garchomp does not have access to DD. *shudders*

7) 404: Not Found! The password is Aardwolf!

8) What is Imperial Rage?

Apparently Outrage's Japanese name was Imperial Rage. At least that's what I'm told. (げきりん)

역린 in Korean basically means the same thing. Dragons and imperialism. Mmm. It was also Dragonite's signature move in GSC, except Charmander and Larvitar can learn it via breeding. Now it's like nearly widespread on some random Pokemon. Ah well.

Thanks to:

Dragonite: For that unexpected amazing sweep near the end.

Ninetales: The only other member in my team for KOing someone else on Austin's team

Austin Sol: For being a haxxy haxx0r. Heh, it was his birthday yesterday (4 May) so wish him a happy birthday!

Random Number Goddess: You may have tried to eat me this time, but I still came out on top. Ha!

Greencat: His format I stole still remains.

You: For reading

Tbird · May 6, 2011

That's a great read, buddy. You really do have some bad luck . Have you still got that warstory where my Heracross like Critted your whole team out? You were not happy that day.

What I don't get is how in the face of adversity you still manage to kick the hell out of folk It's not fair, I tell ya!

Not that I want to see you lose, just wish I could still win from 5-1 down

wraith89 · May 6, 2011

Heh. To make you feel better, at least you get to 6-0 people. Due to my insanely poor luck, that would never happen to me. I do occasionally, but against people who are a little new to the game or something. Otherwise, this is what happens with me

Ziz · May 7, 2011

Blegh wraithy. You are unbelievably unlucky. but you pulled off a win! Good job! :B

Skevengal · May 9, 2011

hehe lol, its nice to laugh at knowing that someone ACTUALLY has worse luck than me

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